Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-...garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment, But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,... Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the ...potatoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as ...a two-edged sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking... up and down on it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the da...y.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftin...ess in deceitful scheming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »